Environmental Engineer

**Duties**:

- This is a developmental position. The duties of this position lead to the full performance level of GS-0819-12.
- Provide environmental engineering input to scopes of work (SOW) and provide technical support for review and evaluation of environmental engineering functions performed by HTRW contractors.
- Examine data from field exploration program or monitoring data from lakes and reservoirs, as well as active storage, disposal or treatment facilities.
- Establish and maintains close contact with regulating agencies to ensure all investigation and design actions are in accordance with applicable regulations.
- Develop and maintain environmental databases for assigned projects.
- Prepare environmental engineering portions of studies (e.g., preliminary assessments/site investigation, inventory project report, remedial investigation/feasibility study, etc.).
- Ensure specialized field monitoring/sensing equipment (e.g., air stations and surface/subsurface water samplers) are functioning properly and are performing desired functions.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Must obtain and maintain a valid state issued driver's license.
- Requires work outside the office involving exposure to varying weather conditions, walking over rough, uneven surfaces, climbing, stooping, bending, and entering confined spaces, requiring use of hard hats and appropriate safety gear.
- Incumbent is required to know, comply with, and promote prescribed safety rules and regulations.
- Routine and special medical examinations are required because of potential exposure and the significant physical stress factors that occur while wearing protective equipment.
- Ability to obtain certification to handle hazardous and toxic wastes.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply: US Citizens**
- **Basic Requirement for Engineering**:
**A. Degree**: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET); OR (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics.
- OR
1. Professional registration or licensure - Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT), or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
- 2. Written Test - Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) examination, or any other written test required for professional registration, by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico.
- 3. Specified academic courses - Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in A above. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program.
- 4. Related curriculum - Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions.
- In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:

- **_Minimum Qualifications for the GS-11:_**
- OR
- **Education**:Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full year